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"I don't think everything can happen," she said. "If he gets half of it done in the first two or three years, that’ll be good."

"I have to admit," said her husband, Warren, "I was a little surprised he wasn’t more generous toward the Obamas. No best wishes. It was a stinging kind of an indictment of the last eight years."

Guests sighed with satisfaction as the TV screen showed Obama and his family flying away in a military helicopter.

"It’s like I just lost 10 pounds," Rizzo said.

Ray Stern has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won many awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.